Religious Coping Strategies of Students and Teacher Accompaniment: A Review of Literature

The transition to a different educational level marks an important milestone for most Filipino students. Oftentimes, this concur in one’s search for identity and various development streams when they move to school settings that are unfamiliar and often stressful. Much of religious coping experiences among young students in the country remain largely unexplored in systematic studies. The apparent neglect of this area of study is the recent sociological observation that student religiosity has declined. However, given that Filipino students’ religiosity has only taken new strides in its manifestations, a review of relevant literature is a logical task to confirm the orientation of scholarly work in this area. The present study reviews student religious coping strategies and forms of support extended by either religious or lay teachers in distress as reported in scholarly literature available online using Google search engine and library resources all over the world.

Keywords: transition, pubertal changes, religious coping strategies, accompaniment